Conference Agenda: The congress will begin on Saturday evening, June 21st, 2003 with keynote addresses by two prominent members of basic and translational melanoma fields. On Sunday and Monday, June 22nd and 23rd there will be plenary sessions in the morning and afternoon, each followed by three concurrent sessions for more detailed discussions. The last day's program on Tuesday, June 24 will have the same format but is restricted to the morning. Poster sessions in the evenings/late afternoons of Sunday and Monday will provide all participants the opportunity to present their research. The 5 plenary sessions will have 5 speakers each in immunology, epidemiology, biology, molecular biology and the tumor microenvironment. The 13 concurrent sessions will cover research areas that are evenly divided among the different research topics. On Monday evening the Melanoma Research Society will be inaugurated. In future years it will be the main sponsor of research meetings.! The Second Melanoma Research Congress will be held in 2005.